Scaled Technical Advisors

Who we are

Scaled Technical Advisors (TA) are technical experts not dedicated to any specific customer but rather the team services a set of customers, together. This allows us to deliver a consistent engagement experience to customers via flexibility to allocate teammates based on customer needs and teammate bandwidth and allocation. Customers may not necessarily interact with the same TA, though we’ll strive to where possible. Scaled TAs are still rooted in providing value and helping customers achieve their desired positive business outcomes within their business using our platform and products. The Scaled TA team leverages much of our Digital Success program to power their work and activities. We are responsible for ensuring that customers achieve their success metrics and continue to find new valuable use cases for Sourcegraph.

What is a Scaled TA at Sourcegraph?

Across the customer lifecycle, Scaled TAs are primarily accountable for the following:

  • Customer onboarding & adoption:
    • At contract signature, our Scaled TA team will receive the hand-off from Sales and Customer Engineering (pre-sales) and conduct a lightweight kick-off with the customer.
    • End user onboarding will consist primarily of digitally nurtured campaigns with oversight by the Scaled TA while handling ad-hoc requests from the customer as needed.
    • The Scaled team will continue to monitor usage & adoption to send tailored enablement materials for the customer based on trends and milestones.
  • Achieving positive outcomes: we are successful when our customers are realizing the expected value and achieving positive outcomes that are additive to their devs and business. We do this by:
    • Conducting bi-annual success planning and annual customer business reviews to ensure we’re partnering together in support of their long-term success.
    • Sending new product feature announcements and beta programs to keep our customers up-to-date.
  • Customer advocacy: throughout our partnership, TAs serve as steadfast advocates on behalf of our customers by:
    • Raising the needs and desires of our customers to our Product teams to continuously improve our product to deliver positive outcomes and realize the most value out of our platform.
    • Conducting bi-annual roadmap reviews and product feedback sessions with customers.

Team KPIs / Measures of Success

We use the following metrics to gauge the effectiveness and success of our team:

  • Utilization (Adoption)
  • Consumption (Usage)
  • Retention (Gross Retention)
  • Growth (Net Retention)

Utilization (Adoption)

We consider healthy adoption/utilization to comprise at least 80% consumption of purchased seats as measured by Monthly Active Users (MAU) / Total Licensed Seats. We aim to get to 80% consumption within the first 60 days of the engagement (after the production environment is established) and maintain at least 80% consumption at all times.

Consumption (Usage)

TAs seek to educate and enable customer devs to integrate Sourcegraph into their workflows so that they use it multiple times daily. Today, we calculate usage based on a 4-week average lookback of daily active users / last month’s monthly active users.

Retention

We strive to make customers for life by being trusted partners and advisors to make our customers successful. We measure ourselves to this premise by ensuring our customers choose us repeatedly. Gross retention is a key metric for measuring our success.

Growth

As technical advisors, we want to deeply know and understand our customers. It is through this lens of trust and understanding that we are able to strengthen our partnership and help our customers mature and advance their capabilities. Net Retention is a key metric for measuring our ability to grow with our customers, unlocking more value and capabilities from Sourcegraph within their teams.

Team Resources

Teammate Onboarding & Development Resources

WIP - coming soon!

How to Reach Us

This team can be engaged in the #discuss-scaled-success channel or via the @scaled-success user group in Slack.